Woodpeckers and Allies
Order: Piciformes. Family: Picidae
Woodpeckers are small to medium sized birds with chisel like beaks, short legs, stiff tails and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward, and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. There are 218 species worldwide and 10 species which occur in Ethiopia.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Rufous-necked Wryneck Jynx ruficollis
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii
- Abyssinian Woodpecker Dendropicos abyssinicus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Bearded Woodpecker Dendropicos namaquus
- Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Grey-headed Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Ethiopia
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